Amazing Sound Card. I'm Hearing Stuff In Tunes I Have Never Heard Before. As a music Producer Myself This is Perfect For Me. As I Can hear Everything In crystal clear sound. This Card Also Does Well In Games I Recommend. :)

Have this hooked up to some Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1 speakers. I know they aren't not the best speakers out there, but this thing makes them sound really really nice. I'm impressed most playing my guitar through it via IK Multimedia Amplitube. Using the ASIO driver set @ 24-bit 2ms it's perfect.

, founded in 1990, is somewhat a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to designing and manufacturing computer hardware and components these days. Currently, the company is pushing their tablets, notebooks, and all-in-ones, but they have firm roots in the manufacturing of computer components that are...

I had tried a few headsets (Corsair, Logitech, Razer) but in one form or another they were lacking. I decided I wanted to get the best sound possible (within my budget), especially for gaming, so I bought this sound card. First of all, it is pricey. But for me, that was the only con.

I'll start with the cons: The driver support for win 7 64 was so bad. You can look throughout forums for hours and find that no one's resolved this simple issue. After countless screwed up installs, restarts, driver sweeping, I said screw it.

New to sound; but I can yell you I've never been happier

took ages to figure out driver issues...; HOURS

Reliability

Behind every pair of headphones should be a good sound chipset. That's the idea, and hopefully anyone who knows anything about good audio would adhere to that. For those who can't figure out why their big expensive headphones aren't quite performing as well as they'd imagined, read on; Large and...

Great quality; beautifully packaged; forms a deadly duo with high-end headphones

None come to mind

The Xonar Essence STX is a PCIe 1x card, with an EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) shield, optical/coaxial output, RCA output L/R and two 6.3mm headphone jacks - that are powered by an onboard amplifier.

In accordance with ASUS philosophy of presenting new devices in short periods of time, not long after the first Fonepad, new models, Fonepad Note 6 and Fonepad 7, have been announced. Unfortunately, f...

So first of all, for people who are saying that they are hearing noise from outputs. The only noise I hear from the card is from HP out, when sample rate is set to 44.1 Khz. What can be the reason of the noise and how to prevent it: 1. Don't use video cards. Use only integrated video. 2.

Sound quality; Takes power direct from PSU; Swappable op-amps; Build quality

DRIVER; Headphone output sound quality